Culture: a philosophical and anthropological dimension

The article examines the phenomenon of culture in the aspect of its connection with human as a creator and creation of culture. The concepts of “type of person” and “culture as a process” are fundamental in the research. The first concept allows us to understand the meaning of cultural and historical eras that create their own type of person - “hero”, “believer”, “cognizing”, “practically acting”, etc. Consideration of culture as a process allows us to understand that culture is not a social and historical phenomenon external to a person, but represents the basis of people’s historical memory (common and individual), is the “place” of the birth of humanity as a moral ideal. In this regard, culture forms an effective attitude of a person to life, the possibility of his creative existence. In the modern world, according to the author’s opinion, the connection between man and culture changes significantly. It connection ceases to be an existential value. On the basis of social technologies and mythology, conditions are created for the gap between generations, the destruction of culture as selfless devotion. The conclusion is made: the modern era of global changes is focused on the formation of an “obedient human” who is not puzzled by the problem of meaningful existence in culture and its traditions, thus, historical memory is no longer in demand by a human of the globalist world, focused on cultural forgetfulness.